Stamp Peacock (Stamp Zia) with black ink onto white cardstock, emboss. Color with Radiant Pearls. Cut out, set aside. Paint square cardstock randomly with random pearls. Stamp Ginkgo Leaf (Stamp Francisco) randomly over card with blue and green ink. Notch corners. Cut out purple, dark blue, blue, green, teal and light green circles. Rim with black ink; stipple with Versamark. Mount leaf background onto black cardstock. Layer circle cutouts as shown. Affix peacock image. Glue black bead onto Peacock eye. Image: Stamp Zia "Bursting With Color" Stamp Artist Cherylynn Moser Stamp Artist - Jodell Larkin Image: Stampin FUNaddict I used a black pre-folded card and layered cream confetti card stock, then layered gold metallic card stock and finally jeweled paper. Emboss image with gold detail embossing powder on white card stock and cut out. Image is done in Radiant Pearls, painted with a brush. Attach a jewel in the upper right-hand corner, with layered card stock beneath, same as under the image. Stamp images with black pigment ink, emboss with clear powder. Color image with Radiant Pearls. Emboss again with clear powder to give your image a protective coating. Stipple complimentary colors of Radiant Pearls over background. Wipe entire piece with a paper towel to remove excess paint and smooth background. Stamp leaves part of image 4 more times and emboss. Stipple with complimentary colors and cut out. Stamp Artist - Judy Dahlgren Image: Stampin FUNaddict Create a frame with handmade paper. Attach together with tiny paper fasteners. Attach to image art piece. Glue extra leaves around frame. Layer on a piece of base cardstock. Use coordinating paper and cut outs to decorate inside of card. Radiant Pearls Tip and Technique - By Deborah D. Johnson What Are Radiant Pearls?  Radiant Pearls are the a painting medium for rubber stampers! With minimal effort, your stamped artwork will be RADIANT!! "Radiant Pearls are transparent (like watercolors) pearlized paints, and emollients similar to oil paints. These properties allow for endless shading and blending techniques. Paint, stipple, apply directly to the rubber stamps and even make background paper. Non-toxic acid free best of all tested safe to emboss for a pearlized enamel effect or air-dried to a soft satin luminescent sheen. Radiant Pearls (RP) are a water-soluble shimmering translucent paint that has thick texture. RP dry by absorption and will not dry on any non-porous surface or in the air. You can let your RP work air-dry to a pearlescent sheen or you can emboss your work for glassy surface."  And they are water based so clean up is nice and easy! What paper is the "Best Paper to use?" There is no best paper say's Kat in a email on the radiant pearls email list.. Quote : " I am asked so frequently which paper is BEST. There is NO "BEST",in my humble opinion."  "My Suggestion, is go ahead and try suggested papers, but don't beat yourself up or your paper supplier up if you can't find what someone else touts as "the best". It may, indeed, be the best paper for them, but may, in the end, leave you cold. Paper, like color, is a personal choice. If what you are using works well, that may be your well-loved reliable paper." So there you have it folks! Use the paper you have and find what works for you Basic Techniques Detail Painting This technique works best with a color book type image… one that is line drawing with open spaces to color in with radiant pearls. This will show off the shimmering appearance of the paint. Use a thin line watercolor paintbrush to pick up paint from your pallet and color in your image Embossing Since radiant pearls will not dry and wont absorb on papers like vellum you will have to emboss it. Simply sprinkle with some clear embossing powder and heat! BEAUTIFUL! Direct To Rubber Just as the technique name suggests.your putting paint directly onto the rubber of your stamp… so grab yourself a solid type image or one that has broad wide lines And your stipple brush loaded with paint and begin stippling color onto your image And then stamp it! Awesome!! Now you can even emboss it for a glassy like finish. Stippling A #2 sized stipple brush works the best. Fits into the jars of radiant pearls. Pickup the paint… and remember a little really does go along way! Then begin to pounce your loaded stipple brush onto either your stamp or your card stock. Create great backgrounds and borders. You can also use any textured tool to stipple with. Wow! This background was made stippling various radiant pearls then over stamped in black and gold inks..  Credits: Stamp Francisco, a stamp in the hand, magenta, stampers anonymous Tips If you want to lighten a color, mix it with a Neutral or Satin Pearl. If you want to emboss an image that has already dried, apply a thin coat of a neutral color over the dry area and then emboss The color of your paper impacts the look of the RP. Since RP are translucent you will see the color of your paper through the RP. The darker the paper, the less color you will see. You must use waterproof ink or emboss your image. It is best to start with an embossed image. The embossed lines help to keep the paint confined to each area and repel the RP to maintain dark black lines. Use lighter (neutral) shades of radiant pearls to lighten up your darker paints.  And to add highlights when shading. Use your darker shades to darken up some of the lighter ones or to make your own new colors!! To clean your brush between colors just wipe on a dry paper towel… no need to Wash them off! That's a waste of paint! Besides you will get some great blended colors if you don't!  I have yet to find colors of radiant pearls that don't work together! The color of your paper impacts the look of the RP. Since RP are translucent you will see the color of your paper through the RP. The darker the paper, the less color you will see. Ideas Stipple brush some on for a background then over stamp on it. Stipple around your detail painted image for a great look. Stipple a shadow stamp and stamp it... then stamp on top of that!  Great way to shadow stamp :) Lay a template down on your card stock and then stipple it for a great Background of color to then stamp over. Karin Cernik's "Radiant Pearls Rules" Rule number one - use VERY little. Put what you think you want on the brush, then use about half of that. Seriously! They will take FOREVER to dry, especially in humid Texas.... :-)  They spread/blend wonderfully, and it really takes very very very very little... Rule number two - they don't dry on plastic. Ever. So use an old software cd or plastic plate or meat tray as a palette. I usually put some of each color that I'm using on a cd, then use it from there. Then you don't have to worry about contaminating your jars with other colors or water. (See later note.) You can keep the cd forever (I have some that are over a year old, Radiant Pearls are still working just fine) if you have a place to keep it away from the kids, the cats, etc. :-) I stick mine in the drawer on top of the jars. Rule number three - linked to rule number two - since they don't dry on plastic, they also don't dry on non-porous surfaces. King James Cast Kote is great for polished stone, it's lousy for Radiant Pearls. Rule number four - water is not your Radiant Pearls friend. Don't put a wet brush in the jar. Don't put water in the jar. You can do these things to thin them down if you want to on your cd palette, but don't get water in the jar. Rule number five - You don't *have* to clean your brush between colors. This is especially true for stippling. Most people just wipe their brush off on a stray piece of cardstock, then go ahead and switch colors. It's not a problem. Keep that stray piece for use as a layering piece! Done with your cd? Wipe that across your cardstock too. Great background paper. Rule number six - you can emboss Radiant Pearls. When you're all done, just dump embossing powder on them (they're still wet, remember?) Heat per normal. It will change the quality of the colors slightly - sometimes you want this, sometimes you don't. Play. :-) Rule number seven - Radiant Pearls will act differently on different kinds of paper. Some are drop dead gorgeous on black, so-so on white. Very absorbent papers will suck them up - harder to spread, blend, and they will dry faster. They look great on rice paper, but it really dries FAST. Hammer mill Via and Fox River Confetti seem to be the papers of choice among the Radiant Pearl folks. (Marco's Paper carries both.) Rule number eight - Have fun!!!! My daughter (8) is the greatest stippler - she makes gorgeous backgrounds. I make mud. (I continue to defy the belief that you can't mess up Radiant Pearls - I can and do.) But I love them for detail work. Radiant Pearls Submitted by: Allison Maas Stamp Artist - Allison Maas Cherubs-Various shades green card stock, velvet paper, Italian print (Papers by Catherine), edges embossed with fine detail gold. Cherubs (Judikins) stamped and colored with Radiant Pearls in watercolor style, cut and mounted at different levels for 3-D effect. Star cut from thin copper, old button added in center, embossed with Ranger Verdigris. Wings cut from vellum and curled, embossed. 1) I save the plastic bottle tops from soda, water bottles to use as 'portion cups' when I'm doing my paper-arts. They are great for holder embossing liquid for brush techniques, small amounts of glue, paints..... 2) old CD's--the one's that come in the mail or the one's that my son has mis-downloaded on his CD recorder--make excellent paint palettes--especially for pearl-ex---when I'm done for the day I spread the paint a little on the cd, sprinkle on some powdered pearls and do a little 'direct-to-paper' to use up the left-over. Masking with Liquid Frisket & Stippling with Radiant Pearls by Debbi Owen Ingredients for: Step 1 - (Stamping & Cutting) White Cardstock (I used Wausau Exact Index, 110#) Magenta stamp #02.085.Q (Poinsettias) Black Memories Ink  Step 2 (Masking) Liquid Frisket (I used The Incredible White Mask, bought from Dick Blick) 10cc syringe with 20 or 21 gauge needle. Step 3 (Stippling) Stipple brushes ( I used #2's and a small stencil brush) Radiant Pearls - Start in the center and work out to the edge of the card, Whisper Blue (center color), Plum Crazy, Blueberry "Makayla" Stamp Artist - Debbi Owen Bliss... then I ran out of paint, so I mixed Celestial Sky with Twilight Time to finish stippling the outer edge... then I mixed Morning Glory with Berrywind to fill in any remaining white spaces and correct mistakes. I used Mango Freeze to fill in open areas of the dried Frisket masks. Scrap paper.

Step 4 (Removing Mask) Your fingers.

Step 5 (Detail Painting) Tiny detail paint brush (I used a 30/0) Small paint brush (I used a size 1) Radiant Pearls- flowers: Hibiscus... leaves: first Emerald Forest, then Malachite for the shading and the stems. Watercolor Paint (I used Windsor & Newton Artist Cadmium Red) for the berries.

Step 6 (Cutting, Layering, and Finishing Your Masterpiece) Layering Papers (I used green, blue, and pink) Xyron with high-tack adhesive cartridge Pen (to sign your art, of course!) Paper cutter (I used a Fiskars 12" rotary cutter for this project)

Instructions:

Step 1 (Stamping & Cutting) a. Stamp poinsettia image onto white cardstock with the black Memories ink.

b. Cut out the images into squares big enough for stippling your background.

Step 2 (Masking) Do not stir or shake the liquid Frisket. Fill your syringe slowly with the Frisket and "paint" over your entire stamped image. "Paint" the outline of the image, then fill it in. It is easier and faster this way. Be careful to cover the black lines, but do not go past them. Set aside to dry overnight. Masking

Step 3 (Stippling*) Do not stir, shake, or add water to your Radiant Pearls (RP's). Stipple* the paints on top of the dried masked areas.  I worked from the middle then moved to the outside. See "Ingredients" section above for the colors of RP's I used for my stippling. You may have some open areas where the Frisket did not quite dry to form a solid latex mask. You can fill in these areas first with another RP color (I used Mango Freeze for my filling in of the masks). Let the Mango Freeze dry then wipe the wet paint off the latex masks before you stipple your other colors for the background.   Radiant Pearl paint will not dry on the latex.   I let each color dry overnight (just because there were so many to do and I stippled one color at a time for this particular project) before moving on to the next color. Allow Radiant Pearls to dry. Stippling the mask with Mango Freeze.

Step 4 (Removing Mask) a. Dab/ wipe any remaining wet RP's off the masks. b. Carefully rub and peel off the dried latex masks. You can use a little "gummy-like, Frisket-remover" thingy or just use your finger like I did to rub a little to get the mask removal started, then slowly and carefully (so as not to rip too much of your paper) pull the rest of the masks off. This is a really fun step! Wiping off the Mango Freeze.

Step 5 (Detail Painting) a. Using a very tiny detail paint brush for tight spots and a very small brush for the rest of the painting of the flowers and leaves, apply/ paint the insides of your stamped image. Remember to apply the RP's very sparingly so you wind up with a very thin coating of paint. Allow each color to dry. Be careful to paint inside the black stamped lines of your image. RP's sometimes spread as they are absorbed into your cardstock during the drying process.

b. Paint the berries with the red watercolor paint using your very tiny detail paint brush. Stay inside the lines and do not cover the little black dots in the center of the berries as this paint is opaque and will hide this detail.

c. Using an RP color which coordinates and/ or blends, go back and paint to cover any mistakes/ white spaces.

d. Allow to dry.

e. Paint Malachite RP's onto the leaf stems and on top of the Emerald Forest to shade the leaves.

f. Sign your work! ºÜº

Step 6 (Cutting, Layering, and Finishing Your Masterpiece) Choose layering papers which coordinate with your painted image. Cut them down to the size you want. Run them through the Xyron machine and adhere your painted image to your cut-out layers.

Stippling* Pour some Radiant Pearls onto something plastic like a CD cover or a clean yogurt lid. Start working the RP's into your stipple brush by dabbing the brushes, then pounce and turn and smoosh until your brush is fully loaded. Pounce, pounce, pounce, & slightly twist the brush as you are stippling the cardstock. Try out your stippling on a scrap to make sure the effect is not too dark and not too light. Just pounce, pounce, pounce, twist, & smoosh until you find your own rhythm and you get the look you want. Remember that the RP's will lighten and blend as they dry and absorb into your cardstock.

Radiant Pearls Techniques   Contributed By: Nancy Elrick The Neutrals act as your blending agent as water would for water coloring.  They have a transparent "shimmer" in 4 color families, Gold, Green, Blue and Violet, allowing you the ultimate in blending your pastel . For example, Mountain Mist is a violet neutral allowing you to blend any violet/Purple such as Royal Satin creating beautiful pastel lavender. The Vibrant colors have a deep saturation of color so you can shade and then blend with the neutral to achieve soft pastels to bold colors! You may use an embossed image or an image stamped with Memories Ink. Radiant Pearls colors will look different on different shades of cardstock.

Stamp Artist -Nancy Elrick

Apply a thin coat with a paintbrush.  I like to use a #2 rounded detailing brush. If you have any blobs or streaks or can see your brushstrokes, you have applied it too thick.  The type of paper used can create a different look and affect the ease of application.  Regular Bond paper is more porous so be careful to work a smaller area at a time. If you get too much on your paper, spread it around by picking up the excess with your brush.  The thinner the application the better.  On a very absorbent paper you can use a thicker application of Radiant Pearls … a thicker application will allow more of the product to be absorbed into the cardstock thus creating a darker saturation.   You can remove the excess Radiant Pearls by carefully dabbing with a clean paper towel.   You can not use Radiant Pearls on coated papers, however vellum (one created without using Petroleum, such as Glamma) works very well.  Radiant Pearls never dry but soak into a porous surface. Use a non-porous surface for your palette and the color will remain suspended and "wet" forever. Do not mix with water. If you wish to tone down a vibrant color, mix it with one of the neutral colors.  You can mix custom colors by starting with a little bit of your lighter color and adding the deeper color in tiny amounts A very little bit of a dark color goes a very long way in darkening a custom blend. RP will never dry on a non-porous surface so these custom colors will be there the next time you want them. Another way to mix custom colors is to add a little Pearl Ex Powder, Powdered Pearls or Faerie Dust to one of the neutral colors of Radiant Pearls. Remember, a little goes a long way! - Move the "pearls" in the movement of the stamp such as the curl of a leaf. Leaving the Radiant Pearls to dry on their own will cause them to have more sparkle. Drying time varies depending on amount of Radiant Pearls on the card, the type of card used and the humidity where you live. Radiant Pearls can be embossed with clear embossing powder for those of us who are too impatient to wait for them to dry. You can use Radiant Pearls directly on a stamp  You can use a regular paint brush, a rubber brayer or for the best look, stipple the product directly onto the stamp, overlapping colors to create dimension You can stipple Radiant Pearls onto a card to create a background using a stippling brush of your choice. To get a more dramatic look you can color your image first with markers and then paint with Radiant Pearls (I like to do this for Christmas red using a red marker and Christmas Rose Radiant Pearls) Try using Radiant Pearls over top of areas colored in with watercolor pencils. The liquid acts as the water to really bring out the color of your pencils. If using bleach, you must use a white bristled brush, a natural bristle will be "eaten" by the bleach.